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LOCATION:Staatsoper Unter den Linden\, Berlin
SUMMARY:The Turn of the Screw
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DESCRIPTION:A young woman is given a job as a governess at a country house\
 , Bly\, where she will be looking after two orphan children\, Flora and Mi
 les. She has been hired by the children’s uncle and guardian\, who doesn
 ’t want to be bothered by anything and who makes the young woman swear t
 o absolute secrecy about the goings-on at his estate. Mysterious things do
  indeed start to happen at the house\, including strange behaviour by the 
 children. She also finds something inscrutable about the housekeeper Mrs G
 rose\, who has apparently spent half her life at Bly. Later\, the governes
 s believes she sees hazy apparitions of a man and a woman gliding through 
 the rooms of the house\, and she identifies them as the spirits of former 
 employees Peter Quint and Miss Jessel. Demonic forces appear to be running
  rampant and plaguing the characters. At the end\, one thing is certain: o
 ne of the characters lies dead. Everything else remains unanswered …\n\n
 Benjamin Britten’s mysterious\, arresting chamber opera The Turn of the 
 Screw has a fragmented structure that reflects the main character’s own
  apparently fragmentary and possibly distorted perceptions and memories. E
 ach scene casts a different light on the events\, which are viewed through
  the lens of the governess’s memories. They do not coalesce into a unifi
 ed whole\, but instead feel more like a puzzle with missing pieces. Britte
 n’s opera is based on an 1898 novel by Henry James that was influenced b
 y early ideas of depth psychology. James once described the novel\, with s
 ome understatement\, as a \"play of strange encounters\".
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